In a world where search companies are a dime a dozen and brands tout bland "unique selling propositions" that aren't unique at all, how can you avoid drowning in the sea of sameness? What are you doing that's any different from every other SEO firm? In this article, you'll learn how to find, activate, and articulate your competitive advantage. You’ll discover how to identify unique st...
When business is struggling, your company might be tempted to cut back or cut off SEO work to save time and money until things stabilize. Dr. Pete is here with a brand new Whiteboard Friday to tell you why stopping SEO efforts altogether creates more work in the long run, and provide some suggestions on what to do instead.
People around the world are having important discussions about systemic racism, overt and covert bias, and how we can all do better. Understanding the problem is the first step. To get a sense of conditions within the SEO community, North Star Inbound asked people to take their Diversity and Inclusion in SEO survey as part of their ongoing project to study the state of SEO. These are their findings.
It’s not easy to get your brand name mentioned in top media outlets. But if you put in the work to engage in content marketing + digital PR, the benefits are massive. Amanda explains how you can earn this type of coverage and its corresponding benefits for your brand.
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Just how big is the gender gap in the SEO industry, and how does it translate to tangible things like pay and job titles? To find out, the team at North Star Inbound mined the data from their State of SEO 2020 survey. Here are some of the things they learned.
Will Critchlow has been in an introspective mood lately, and it's had him looking back over what’s changed and what hasn’t over the last 15 years in the SEO industry.
Businesses should re-evaluate their planned budgets for paid search and other paid digital campaigns for the next 12-24 months. Hopefully, this pandemic cedes faster than that and the economy comes out of our pending depression more rapidly at some point next year. But since nobody can know for sure when that will happen, it’s better to be safe and plan accordingly.
Britney Muller walks us through a bevy of smart tips and considerations that will strengthen your SEO negotiation skills, whether you're a seasoned pro or a newbie to the practice.
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Over the years, I’ve often referred to our link building work as “campaigns”, which isn't wrong, but isn’t completely right, either. I think that as an industry we need to alter our mindset to focus on what link building should be: an ongoing, integrated, business-as-usual activity.
In my last post for Moz, I explained how to set realistic digital PR expectations for your content based on your niche. In this topic, I want to dive a little bit deeper into the data and share insights about how the source of your content can be just as important in determining how your content will perform.
In October 2019, a 16-year-old company rebranded from Logic Supply to OnLogic. The recovery from a traffic standpoint has been pretty smooth (and much faster than expected), and customers have embraced the new name and look. The team shares their story, the steps they took to prepare, and some things they learned along the way.
As an industry, SEOs and marketers talk a good game about collaboration and integration, but the truth is it’s not really happening the way we tell our clients and bosses it happens. I want to introduce you to the concept of interdisciplinarity: when two or more areas of expertise join forces to solve new kinds of problems together.
Currently, many businesses face challenging times and are moving their SEO budget to disciplines which offer quicker wins. But you can also create instant results with SEO: SEO sprints consist of five steps, and they can be performed on a small budget inside a short period. The learnings from one SEO sprint are passed on to the next one, so you can reuse what worked efficiently.
This time around, rather than focusing on specific keywords, I focused on overall B2B trends so we can identify which categories might be of interest to your target businesses and their audiences. Then, you can examine whether these trends make sense for your niche and draw inspiration from them for your content.